My point exactly. He's incapable of reviewing the movie as an independent entity. He clearly walked into the screening hating the book (or at least how he perceives its politics) so much that it colored how he perceived the movie. Point in fact - two of this review's four paragraphs are largely about how he…

My point exactly.

Am I the only one who thinks that Ignatiy is unsuited for this review, given that he seems incapable of separating his obvious distaste for the novel from coloring his perception of the movie?

Worked for me as a bullied minority teen in high school. The one locker-room fight I got into, I pummeled the other kid into a TKO and probably would have gone for a full KO if I hadn't been pulled off of him. He was expecting a fistfight, not the "sweet karate"/traditional martial arts tactics of "twist the balls…

An alt-burlesque performer I work with on occasion has a pretty heart-breaking routine to "Jar of Hearts." I'm usually not a fan of "sad-lesque," as it can really kill the energy of a show, but Viktor Devonne's performance is so good that it's become one of his regularly-requested acts.

What Mlcfc said. Will Smith is the convenient target for my ire against shoddy SF work, particularly that which invokes the classics.

I really wish Will Smith would just leave "serious" science (speculative) fiction alone. I, Robot, his version of I Am Legend, and After Earth are cinematic abortions, with the first two accomplishing nothing but denigrating the source material.

"At least tell me she has a choking fetish in this movie." <—- you don't know how close to the truth you are. :)

Saw this last night. The problems with Carrie (2013) can all be attributed to a weak script and a mismatched director. The cast did wonders with what they were given, IMHO. Chloe Grace Moretz - cute as she is - really conveys shy, frightened awkwardness; Judy Greer has a handful of great scene-chewing moments; and…

I couldn't stop masturbating to this episode. This is how specific MY fetishes have become.

I just re-read Scott Tobias' review of Trust. That's someone who "gets" Hartley. In fact, why didn't they have ST do this review? In his review of Trust, Tobias opines that NST is unfairly derided. Clearly someone who likes HH and NST and also gets at what HH is trying to do.

You're right. I'd forgotten about that line, and now that I recall it, that sums him up in a nutshell.

Lot of interesting food for thought there.

Trust is my favorite movie. I also love Henry Fool (thought Fay Grim, the sequel, was a terrible idea, tho). Amateur is full of great little moments, but it's not his strongest movie.

"[No Such Thing is] Hartley’s first serious effort to integrate straightforward emotional sincerity into his deadpan-hipster worldview…"

The problem (for me) with a lot of the Lee fight accounts is that they are largely unsubstantiated. There are a few eyewitnesses, but the Lee hype machine went into such overdrive after his death that it's difficult to separate the bull from the plausible.

Yeah, now that you mention it, that makes sense. A lot of the early Shaw stars had some Karate/Tae Kwon Do training. Point in fact - large number of HK kung-fu guys active in the 70s and 80s trained Karate at some point (I guess it was popular then).

Weird fact - Fist of Fury (aka Chinese Connection) is a rather anti-Japanese movie. Yet Lee used nunchaku - a Japanese weapon - rather extensive. I always raised my eyebrow at this.

Dunno where Mike got his "evidence" - but for me (30 years in Chinese martial arts and counting), I would have put my money on Chuck Norris, too. The fact that Norris had an extensive and successful public fight record - versus Lee's unverified rooftop matches and the one factually contested match with Wong Jack Man…

I got all excited when Venus Van Dam showed back up last week because WALTON GOGGINS WITH TITTIES IS MAD AWESOME YO.